‘Realising the Self and Developing the African’: German Immigrants in Namibia

Armbruster, Heidi

doi:10.1080/13691831003687683

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“…In keeping with previous findings on how kinship and social networks facilitate the decision to migrate (Faist, ; Haug, ; Armbruster, ), the HSBTN emphasized that having family members or friends as well as a Turkish community and associations in Canada and Germany impacted whether they decided to move (17 interviewees in Canada and 21 interviewees in Germany). HSBTN finalized their decision about which country to move to after family members, friends, or neighbours described life in Germany (B10, B30) or Canada (A12, A4, A16) in very favourable ways, or because they themselves had followed positive comments about life in Germany or Canada on the Internet, in the media or at seminars.…”

Section: Social Network and Choice Of Destinationsupporting

confidence: 67%

What Moves the Highly Skilled and Why? Comparing Turkish Nationals in Canada and Germany

Özçürümez

Aker

2016

International Migration

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Based on in‐depth interviews with highly skilled and business Turkish nationals (HSBTN) in Canada and Germany, this study aims to explore why HSBTN decide to move and whether migration policy differences among the countries of destination affect recent migration motivations of HSBTN. It mainly focuses on the reasons and rationale of HSBTN and their explanations. This study argues that the high skilled and business migrants in general and HSBTN in particular move internationally as a consequence of individual‐level gain beyond economic prospects.

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Section: Social Network and Choice Of Destinationsupporting

confidence: 67%

What Moves the Highly Skilled and Why? Comparing Turkish Nationals in Canada and Germany

Özçürümez

Aker

2016

International Migration

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“…Key themes from the narratives: cautious migration from 'boring' Germany Taken in the round, the interviews indicate that many young Germans engage in a kind of 'cautious' or 'haphazard' migration to London (Armbruster, 2010(Armbruster, , p. 1237. The UK is seen as a nearby destination, different from Germany, but not that different; it is abroad, but not that far away.…”

Section: Germans In London: Crisis -What Crisis?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Eurocity London: a qualitative comparison of graduate migration from Germany, Italy and Latvia

King

Lulle

Conti

et al. 2016

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This paper compares the motivations and characteristics of the recent migration to London of young-adult graduates from Germany, Italy and Latvia. Conceptually the paper links three domains: the theory of core-periphery structures within Europe; the notion of London as both a global city and a 'Eurocity'; and the trope of 'crisis'. The dataset analysed consists of 95 in-depth biographical interviews and the paper's main objective is to tease out the narrative similarities and differences between the three groups interviewed. Each of the three nationalities represents a different geo-economic positioning within Europe. German graduates move from one economically prosperous country to another; they traverse shallow economic and cultural boundaries. Italian graduates migrate from a relatively peripheral Southern European country where, especially in Southern Italy, employment and career prospects have long been difficult, and have become more so in the wake of the financial crisis. They find employment opportunities in London which are unavailable to them in Italy. Latvian graduates are from a different European periphery, the Eastern one, postsocialist and post-Soviet. Like the Italians, their moves are economically driven whereas, for the Germans, migration is more related to lifestyle and life-stage. For all three groups, the chance to live in a large, multicultural, cosmopolitan city is a great attraction. And for all groups, thoughts about the future are marked by uncertainty and ambiguity.

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“…Rather, it encourages us to consider migration and the sociological concept of lifestyle together as part of a toolkit to “understand the complex reasoning and experience of migrants” (Benson & O'Reilly, , p. 12). To date, there is a large body of research that has addressed lifestyle migration within Europe (Benson, ; Griffiths & Maille, ; King, Warnes, & Williams, ; Oliver, ; O'Reilly, ; Scott, ; Torkington, ) and a developing interest in movement from the Global North to the Global South (Armbruster, ; Benson, ; Botterill, ; Hayes & Perez‐Ganan, ; Korpela, ; Ono, ). This paper is part of a growing body of work to address lifestyle migration from the Global North to Australasia (Hammerton, ; Sato, ) and, in particular, Aotearoa New Zealand (Pearson, ; Trundle, ).…”

Section: Imaginative Geographies and Orientations To “The Good Life” mentioning

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Lifestyle migration and settler colonialism: The imaginative geographies of British migrants to Aotearoa New Zealand

Higgins

2017

Population Space and Place

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This paper explores the imaginative geographies of relatively privileged migrants living in settler societies for their colonial continuities. It responds to a recent call to historicise the cultural significance attached to migration and destinations in lifestyle migration research through an exploration of some of the potential synergies between the newly emergent field of settler colonial studies and lifestyle migration. The analysis draws on 12 months of qualitative research with British migrants living in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. First, it examines the ambivalent affective associations of "islandness" and distance, as both insulating and isolating.Second, the paper explores the twinned appreciation of spectacular, empty natural surroundings, and a perception of a "lack" of culture and history. It is argued, first, that the geographical and historical interpellation of the country as "at the end of the world" and as "young" recentres distant Euro-colonial cultures and decentres Māori cultures. And, second, that the intersections of contemporary lifestyle migration and settler colonialism are an important avenue for future research.

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‘Realising the Self and Developing the African’: German Immigrants in Namibia

Cited by 26 publications

References 11 publications

What Moves the Highly Skilled and Why? Comparing Turkish Nationals in Canada and Germany

What Moves the Highly Skilled and Why? Comparing Turkish Nationals in Canada and Germany

Eurocity London: a qualitative comparison of graduate migration from Germany, Italy and Latvia

Lifestyle migration and settler colonialism: The imaginative geographies of British migrants to Aotearoa New Zealand

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